Poker Sites Harmful To Your Computer

I was talking to my stepfather the other day. He works for a software company. He was telling me that some poker sites that you download their program take the majority of your CPU usage and sell them to other sites. The sites who buy it either flood it with pop up advertisements or install a "worm" into your computer which causes various problems that cannot be easily fixed. Anybody hear about this? If it's true (and I won't be surprised if it is), we should be careful on which poker sites to download. I told my stepfather I stick to the poker sites this site has a link too since it's the source of poker information I trust.

I'm quite sure that's true. When my internet security program runs a scan it always lists Pacific Poker as adware/spyware..Still have it downloaded though,so far it hasn't caused any problems ( that i know of )! So yep, I don't doubt it one bit!!!!

if youre really worried about this, you can always run msconfig (on win98 and xp; 2000 and NT dont have msconfig) and see whats running in the background and turn them off selectively, or try to uninstall them manually.

i have a tachometer on my pc and ive never notice it spike and stay at high rpms when i play partypoker. i cant vouch for other sites, though.

I've never noticed a problem while playing, nor does Symantec Virus Scan report any of my poker software (Party, Ultimatebet, PokerStarts, FCP, FTP and Doyle's Room) as a virus or spyware candidate. Don't have Pacific Poker though.

Oh yeah no report for Bodog too. Forgot I'm a degenerate!

Never had a problem here. I stick to PartyPoker, PokerRoom, and PokerStars usually.

Spybot always lists Golden Palace as adware/spyware. I deleted GP a long time ago, but something is still in my system. I don't have any problems though so who knows what's up with that.

Someday in the future we'll all have to have 2 PCs. One for important personal stuff that will never be connected to the Net and one that has a few worms and viruses on it.

I have to agree with your Stepfather. I am always getting microgaming in my adware/spyware scans, Golden Palace etc...........

Funny thing is when I had my computer problems back last summer, it was Noble most likely said the computer shop guy that "Helped" in the crash of the system.
Hmmmmmm you would think these Goobers that design the poker software/and the site owners would understand if their software makes the computer crash and not work that WE Players can't play on the sites to win or LOSE money! so in other words NO WORKY NO MONEY!

i would hazard a guess to say that gambling sites/online casino sites would be more likely to contain spy/adware than a straight-up poker site. also, any site that isnt one of the "biggies" (eg: pokerstars, partypoker, ultimatebet) is also more likely to be sketchy.